International Characters

International Characters
So in FlashMX its "System.useCodePage=true;", whats the equivalent of it in FlashMX2004? Does anyone know?

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International Characters Over Socket
I am trying to transfer some swedish characters (å, ä and ö) over a socket connection. All I get is C% C$ C6. How can I get this right? Do I have to encode it in some way?

Thanks / Henrik

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International Characters And Firefox
Hi,
Using Flash 8, I am trying to create a dynamic flash showing a title.

On my HTML page I have:
<param name="movie" value="images/titulo.swf?strTitle=años">

It works just fine on Internet Explorer.
However, in Firefox (1.5) , the flash displays just "s"

How can I fix this ?

Thanks
Oli77

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[MX 2004] International Characters
Ive been using..

System.useCodePage=1

..at the beginning of my files when exporting for Flashplayer MX 6. But when exporting for the new player (MX 7), it wont work.

Is there a new syntax for displaying international characters?

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[MX 2004] International Characters
Ive been using..

System.useCodePage=1

..at the beginning of my files when exporting for Flashplayer MX 6. But when exporting for the new player (MX 7), it wont work.

Is there a new syntax for displaying international characters?

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Importing International Characters In Flash
Can anyone tell me how to import international characters into a Flash movie?

I've built a ticker that imports information from a database. An ASP file gathers the information from the database first and then sends the information to Flash in string. It works great in English, but when there are French characters, I get squares instead of my accented letters (like é,è,à,ç, etc).

What can I do to fix this. I know that the string is fine because the characters look fine in the ASP page.

If anyone can help, I would be your most humble servant.

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Importing International Characters In Flash
Can anyone tell me how to import international characters into a Flash movie?

I've built a ticker that imports information from a database. An ASP file gathers the information from the database first and then sends the information to Flash in string. It works great in English, but when there are French characters, I get squares instead of my accented letters (like é,è,à,ç, etc).

What can I do to fix this. I know that the string is fine because the characters look fine in the ASP page.

If anyone can help, I would be your most humble servant.

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Animating Text With International Characters By AS? Help Please
Hi,
Has anybody here some ideas about animating international characters by AS?
I mean in many of text animation tutorials, one defines the variable as (just an example):

ActionScript Code:
Set Variable: "text" = "This is a DOS text typer effect."
But what about a text with international characters and especially those which are written from the right side?
Any help on this please?

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Pixel Fonts With International Characters
Hey guys !!

Just wondering if somebody knows of a decent pixel fonts that includes international characters in it ? You see most of my project have to be done in French and those damn accents are never included in those pixel fonts.

Oh and it'd be nice if it was free too...sorry but the thought of paying for a bunch of letters is a concept I have yet to get used to.

Many thanks

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International Characters Rendering As Squares
Hello everyone!
Since now I extend my thanks to all those who are willing to help!

Alright!
I read this tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/i...characters.htm

I'm trying to use the easy version...
Which is a problem due to the fact that the tutorial's instructions don't seem to work on Mx 2004!

I'd like those of you that know more than I do to enlighten my unto the new code for that effect!

I'll be trying the harder version just to make sure...
Although if I don't really go anywhere with this i'll just use the "render as html" on my textbox and use html chars for the correction of this problem...

I'd just like not to have to make the litle news box with css rendered html and international characters I'm making any more complicated than it tottaly has to be!

Normal people might have to put in the info so its better if they don't have to be thaught about html and international char sets.

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International Characters & External Text
Ok, I have read everything possible on this topic and have set everything up properly yet when I publish my movie which is loading an external txt file containing characters with french accents the accents do not appear when viewed online, however they do appear when published (flash player 6) and viewed through flash player locally?

My text file is UTF-8, I have specified the "Basic Latin Glyphs" as well as the specific characters, I have used this code: "System.useCodepage = True;" yet it still refuses to work when I upload and view it online?!?!?!?

Without the "...useCodepage..." the characters just do not appear, but with it the letters which should read "é" for example, appear as "^"?!?!?!

anyone, anyone...

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Problem With Correct Encoding Of International Characters
Hi Guys,

As a dane I have been using Flash and international characters for sometime without any mayor problems.

But, I just encountered one...

I use the LoadVars object, GET method, to sendAndLoad values.

When I export my movie to Flash Player 6 and Actionscript 1.0, the character Æ becomes %C6 which is correct.

But, if I export the movie as Flash Player 7 and Actionscript 1.0 the Æ suddenly encodes to %C3%86 which, as far as I know, is not correct and causes problems in my server-side script.

Does anybody now the reason for this?
And a possible solution?

Thanks in advance!

Mads

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Again Problem With International Characters In Dynamic Text Box
Hi!
I'm trying to load some text with international characters in a dynamic text box. I have embeded all fonts and characters and I have followed Kirupa's tutorial on this with "//!-- UTF8", NO luck. I can't see anything in the text box. It works for english characters.
I have tried "System.UseCodePage=true;" too, but could someone please tell me how the text file looks like?This is the code I use:
ActionScript:

PHP Code:



//System.UseCodePage=true;
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("file.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
     if (success) {
          newsBox.html = true;
          newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
     }
}; 




Maybe the problem is in the text file?
Any help?

mx-guest2004

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Firefox Chrome Showing ? Instead Of International Characters
Hi,

I have a flash movie at this site

http://preview.tinyurl.com/5289rz

When you click on the rendered thumb nail (with a link containing international characters) it takes you to a URL with those same characters in IE 7 it displays international characters and takes you to a correct page but in Firefox, Chrome and Opera the international characters are displayed correctly in the flash movie, but the URL turns those characters into question marks ???? and the pages shows a 404 not found error.

Firefox

http://www.site.com/video/??????_??????_???????_???????_???????_???_????????































Edited: 01/05/2009 at 04:51:28 PM by IssyNoahs

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A Tutorial On Using International Characters In Dynamic Textfields
[--BEGIN EDIT--]
According to Macromedia,


Code:
System.UseCodePage=true;
will ensure that all international characters will be properly rendered. I tried this with MX and it works fine. Go ahead and read how to do it the long way below but now that I know this method, I'm sitcking with it!

I feel like a fool now
[--END EDIT--]

Ever tried importing text from an external file that contained international characters just to find that when testing your SWF, the accents and special characters didn't render properly or even at all? Well, for those of you who have, I feel your frustration. But there is no longer any need to fear as I have discovered a simple yet effective solution to this plague!

There are a few things to consider when you're planning on including international characters in a dynamic text box. The first is the formatting and encoding of your external file. The second is the method you use to import the data from the file into your SWF.


1. Format and encoding of the external file
---------------------------------------------------------

Format
Formatting rules of a file containing variables with international characters are more strict than usual. This may seem a little strange but things will make sense later when I show you how to import the file into your SWF.

The first thing to know is that your file must begin with the following line of code:


Code:
//!-- UTF-8
n.b.: It is important to conserve all spaces as demonstrated

The second thing is to make sure your variables are properly declared. Unlike a file without international characters, the code


Code:
myvar = j'étire mes jambes
will have your SWF complaining that you have a syntax error. The reason for this is that we will make use of the #include function to import our variables. Because #include parses syntax-sensitive code, we must format our file like so:


Code:
myvar = "j'étire mes jambes";
It makes sense to do things this way and in fact, I prefer declaring variables this way - it just makes things cleaner .


Encoding
Unlike the norm, files containing international characters must be saved using UTF-8 encoding. I know for a fact that this can be done with Notepad but I'm confident that any text editor can do this as well. To save a file with UTF-8 encoding in Notepad, simply select Save-as and change the Encoding-type to UTF-8. That's it.


So to recap on formatting, here's how a 'well-formed' text file would look like:


Code:
//!-- UTF-8
myvar = "j'étire mes jambes";

2. Importing your international text file into your SWF
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I am assuming that you already know how to properly setup a dynamic textfield to recieve external data so if you are unsure about this, take a look in the forums and you will surely find an answer.

Now this couldn't be easier. Instead of using the usual loadVariables() function, we will use the #include command. Let's say the file that contained the text we wanted in our dynamic textfield was located in the file c:/temp/test.txt. We would then put the following line in the movie clip (or _root) where the textfield existed:


Code:
#include "c:/temp/test.txt"
n.b.: I intentionally omitted the semi-colon from the end of the line. Flash will complain that you have a malformed #include statement if you decide to do otherwise.


And that's it. Simple huh? Seems a little strange that Flash doesn't include support by default for all ASCII characters. I know how much frustration this caused me and am just glad now to have a solution. I hope this was as relieving to me as it was to you.

Cheers,
ptolemy

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Loading Dynamic Text With International Characters...
Hi everyone,

Could it be possible to load dynamic text into a text field with international characters: é, ê, à...? This text field must have a scrollbar because my text is too long to enter in my page.

But ideally, I would like to have this text to be formated: it is a FAQ page with Questions (I would like those to be bigger with different color) and answers. It this task possible? HTML with CSS?

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Sending By Email (flash Form & Php) INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS
hi!

I do have a big problem!

I made a flash form to send variables by a php file for my mail..the fact is that when i receive the mail characters lik "ç ã é" and so on are all messed up!

this is what i have in flash:

1. imput textfields with several variables, and i already choosed all kind of latin characters, and it isn´t working!
2. the code for the send button is:

on (release) {
if (!from.length || from.indexOf("@") == -1 || from.indexOf(".") == -1) {
status = "Insere um email válido!";
} else if (!nome.length) {
status = "Digita o teu nome próprio!";
} else if (!apelido.length) {
status = "Digita o teu
(...allvariables...)
} else {
lineAdapt();
loadVariablesNum("mail.php3", 5, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

3.and the code in same frame is:

subject = "beAmodel | nova inscrição";
message_send = "Inscrição";
stop();
function lineAdapt() {
message_send = message;
nome = "Nome: "+nome;
apelido = "Apelido: "+apelido;
tel = "Tel: "+tel;
telm = "Telm: "+telm;
from = "Email: "+from;
morada = "Morada: "+morada;
localidade = "Localidade: "+localidade;
cod_postal = "Código Postal: "+cod_postal+" - "+cod_postal2;
data_nascimento = "Data de nascimento: "+data_nascimento;
altura = "Altura: "+altura;
obs = "Obs: "+obs;
nome_ee = "Nome do Encarregado de Educação: "+nome_ee;
contacto_ee = "Contacto do Encarregado de Educação: "+contacto_ee;
while (msg_count<length(message)) {
msg_count = msg_count+1;
if ((substring(message_send, msg_count, 2)) eq "
") {
message_send = (substring(message_send, 1, msg_count-2)) add "
" add (substring(message_send, msg_count+2, (length(message_send))-msg_count+2));
}
}
message = message_send+"
"+nome+"
"+apelido+"
"+"
"+tel+ "
"+telm+"
"+from+"
"+morada+"
"+localidade+" n"+cod_postal+"
"+"
"+data_nascimento+"
"+altur a+"
"+"
"+obs+"
"+"
"+nome_ee+"
"+contacto_ee ;
delete msg_count;
delete message_send;
}

and this is working! I still don´t know if the problem is in flash or in the php file..


and this what i have in "mail.php3":

<?php
mail("xirika@hotmail.com", $subject, $message, "From: beAgency
Reply-To: $from
X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

I already tried to save the php file in dreamweaver encoded in UTF-8 but it didin´t worked, actuyally the mail never came!!

what should I do??

Thank u for reading, if u know ssomething about it...i apreciate!!

xirika

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Sending By Email (flash Form & Php) INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS
hi!

I do have a big problem!

I made a flash form to send variables by a php file for my mail..the fact is that when i receive the mail characters lik "ç ã é" and so on are all messed up!

this is what i have in flash:

1. imput textfields with several variables, and i already choosed all kind of latin characters, and it isn´t working!
2. the code for the send button is:

on (release) {
if (!from.length || from.indexOf("@") == -1 || from.indexOf(".") == -1) {
status = "Insere um email válido!";
} else if (!nome.length) {
status = "Digita o teu nome próprio!";
} else if (!apelido.length) {
status = "Digita o teu
(...allvariables...)
} else {
lineAdapt();
loadVariablesNum("mail.php3", 5, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

3.and the code in same frame is:

subject = "beAmodel | nova inscrição";
message_send = "Inscrição";
stop();
function lineAdapt() {
message_send = message;
nome = "Nome: "+nome;
apelido = "Apelido: "+apelido;
tel = "Tel: "+tel;
telm = "Telm: "+telm;
from = "Email: "+from;
morada = "Morada: "+morada;
localidade = "Localidade: "+localidade;
cod_postal = "Código Postal: "+cod_postal+" - "+cod_postal2;
data_nascimento = "Data de nascimento: "+data_nascimento;
altura = "Altura: "+altura;
obs = "Obs: "+obs;
nome_ee = "Nome do Encarregado de Educação: "+nome_ee;
contacto_ee = "Contacto do Encarregado de Educação: "+contacto_ee;
while (msg_count<length(message)) {
msg_count = msg_count+1;
if ((substring(message_send, msg_count, 2)) eq "
") {
message_send = (substring(message_send, 1, msg_count-2)) add "
" add (substring(message_send, msg_count+2, (length(message_send))-msg_count+2));
}
}
message = message_send+"
"+nome+"
"+apelido+"
"+"
"+tel+ "
"+telm+"
"+from+"
"+morada+"
"+localidade+" n"+cod_postal+"
"+"
"+data_nascimento+"
"+altur a+"
"+"
"+obs+"
"+"
"+nome_ee+"
"+contacto_ee ;
delete msg_count;
delete message_send;
}

and this is working! I still don´t know if the problem is in flash or in the php file..


and this what i have in "mail.php3":

<?php
mail("xirika@hotmail.com", $subject, $message, "From: beAgency
Reply-To: $from
X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

I already tried to save the php file in dreamweaver encoded in UTF-8 but it didin´t worked, actuyally the mail never came!!

what should I do??

Thank u for reading, if u know ssomething about it...i apreciate!!

xirika

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Sending By Email (flash Form & Php) INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS
hi!

I do have a big problem!

I made a flash form to send variables by a php file for my mail..the fact is that when i receive the mail characters lik "ç ã é" and so on are all messed up!

this is what i have in flash:

1. imput textfields with several variables, and i already choosed all kind of latin characters, and it isn´t working!
2. the code for the send button is:

on (release) {
if (!from.length || from.indexOf("@") == -1 || from.indexOf(".") == -1) {
status = "Insere um email válido!";
} else if (!nome.length) {
status = "Digita o teu nome próprio!";
} else if (!apelido.length) {
status = "Digita o teu
(...allvariables...)
} else {
lineAdapt();
loadVariablesNum("mail.php3", 5, "POST");
gotoAndStop(2);
}
}

3.and the code in same frame is:

subject = "beAmodel | nova inscrição";
message_send = "Inscrição";
stop();
function lineAdapt() {
message_send = message;
nome = "Nome: "+nome;
apelido = "Apelido: "+apelido;
tel = "Tel: "+tel;
telm = "Telm: "+telm;
from = "Email: "+from;
morada = "Morada: "+morada;
localidade = "Localidade: "+localidade;
cod_postal = "Código Postal: "+cod_postal+" - "+cod_postal2;
data_nascimento = "Data de nascimento: "+data_nascimento;
altura = "Altura: "+altura;
obs = "Obs: "+obs;
nome_ee = "Nome do Encarregado de Educação: "+nome_ee;
contacto_ee = "Contacto do Encarregado de Educação: "+contacto_ee;
while (msg_count<length(message)) {
msg_count = msg_count+1;
if ((substring(message_send, msg_count, 2)) eq "
") {
message_send = (substring(message_send, 1, msg_count-2)) add "
" add (substring(message_send, msg_count+2, (length(message_send))-msg_count+2));
}
}
message = message_send+"
"+nome+"
"+apelido+"
"+"
"+tel+ "
"+telm+"
"+from+"
"+morada+"
"+localidade+" n"+cod_postal+"
"+"
"+data_nascimento+"
"+altur a+"
"+"
"+obs+"
"+"
"+nome_ee+"
"+contacto_ee ;
delete msg_count;
delete message_send;
}

and this is working! I still don´t know if the problem is in flash or in the php file..


and this what i have in "mail.php3":

<?php
mail("xirika@hotmail.com", $subject, $message, "From: beAgency
Reply-To: $from
X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
?>

I already tried to save the php file in dreamweaver encoded in UTF-8 but it didin´t worked, actuyally the mail never came!!

what should I do??

Thank u for reading, if u know ssomething about it...i apreciate!!

xirika

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International Timezones
I'm no programmer but this is driving me nuts!
http://www.punchbear.com/flash/timezone_test_01d.swf

I want the clock to change when the relevant timezones get rolled over - is it best to put a separate instance of the clock into each timezone button with its own individual offset script? Or to write a script that changes the main clock on rollover? And how??

This is the script that I got from the Flashkit tutorial:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
// Gets the time information and stores in MyDate
MyDate = new Date();
// Assigns values individually
hour = MyDate.getHours();
minute = MyDate.getMinutes();
// Calculates position for hours hand
if (hour>11) {
hour = hour-12;
}
hour = hour*5;
movement = minute/12;
hour = int(hour+movement);
// Moves hours hand
with (_root.Clock.Hours) {
gotoAndStop(hour)+1;
}
// Moves minutes hand
with (_root.Clock.Minutes) {
gotoAndStop(minute)+1;
}
}



Me backs against the wall on this one! Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Cheers

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Buttons And International
Hi all

I've got 2 questions. I was looking for a solution on other sites as well as this one but was unable to. I have a movieclip with buttons inside of it... how do I make the buttons work?

The other question is: Is there anyway to have a multilanguage site where when a link for say... chinese is clicked the type changes to it?

I thank you for taking the time to read as well as to answer my questions

d

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International Time Clock
Can Flash tell Internaltional Time from multiple time zones?What I am trying to do is make a movie clip that contains 5 different analog clocks with each one representing a specific time zone from around the world. I want to have each clock represent a city like NY, London, ...and display their real time according to their individual time zone. Can I do this with Flash 5?Thanks in advance! TC

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International Text In Components
I have a slight problem. The problem is involving connecting to babelfish and translating languages. I have a small, fully funtional translation piece using components. I have the component styles set to use Lucida Grande(which has the european characters and also should work for spanish) Even tho i have an international font, when the translation comes back it does not display the special characters, only english characters and little boxes for special characters(as though they are not there) Does anyone know how to remedy this issue?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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International Time Calculation
I am working on an international clock wall project. Kind of like a news room or the NYSE, where there are multiple clocks showing the time from various International locations.

I have used the time and date objects in the past to get a local time, but I do not know how to take it one step further to get mulitple international times. I have tried to research this, but to no avail.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

Here is the closest example of what I am looking for although it would not be interactive at all. It will simply be a static display on a screen - Singapore: 8:58pm, etc.

http://www.timeticker.com/

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International Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet

Hi - got a problem - I have Flash MX and want to know if there is an International Phonetic Alphabet plugin/download that I can get?

Macromedia have not been much help.

Best wishes,

G

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International Fonts - Dynamic Loading
Hi,

the problem is with Eastern European characters.

They are loaded from XML (UTF-8 encoded) to dynamic text field.

If I embed font which supports them (ie. Arial CE) they don't show up.

If I don't embed them they show up event if objects alfa is 0 or they don't show if object is masked

system.useCodepage = true won't work

Any ideas?

Thanks

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[Flash8]International Character Support Through PHP Form...
Hi Flashers--

I just built an AS2 form based on Senocular's tutorial here:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti..._php_email.htm

And it works fine, save that all Danish characters (Å Æ Ø) show up as Ã¥ æ ø Ã… Æ Ø.

I have embedded all necessary non-US/UK characters into the input form fields in Flash, but it doesn't solve the problem.

Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Job Offer - Movie Needed For Opening Of An International Conference...
Dear Friends,

A movie (Flash Based movies are preferred in combination with actual images and video shots), 5-6 minutes in length, about Global Issues in general is needed. Ideas will be provided by our side, yet your ideas are also worth including if appropriate with the content. This will be presented during the opening ceremony of an international United Nations conference. It is serious and work should be professional in all areas and eye-candy at the same time.

Interested professionals please contact webmaster@m-undp.org as well as ozenalp@hotmail.com

Regards,
Alp Ozenalp

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Changing Foreign Language Characters To Normal Characters
Hi

What im doing is taking a word from an imput box and the searching an xml file for it.

I have all that working.
MY issue is the application is in french and i want to be able to strip the inputed word of special characters
like é.

The reason for this i because if i have to account for the case that the user uses the special character and not use the special character (just incase) then this will eventually inflate the size of the xml im searching because ill have to put in both.

EG
User 1 searches for Abbé
User 2 searches for Abbe

They both get a result

CURRENT SOLUTION
XML Contains entry for Abbé and Abbe

DESIRED SOLUTION
XML Contains entry for Abbe only
Actionscript strips the search word of special characters à to a and é to e etc etc
Searchs the XML with new stipped word!!!

Thanks

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Special Characters Same CharCode As Normal Characters?
Hey everyone

I have a key listener where I trace the KeyboardEvent:


Code:
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, testIt);

private function testIt(e:KeyboardEvent):void
{
trace(e);
}
My problem is, that my danish character æøå traces exaclty the same event as the letters aoa... All my danish colleagues have no problems getting the right charCode, but mine just can't handle it...

What can be the problem here????

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International "We Are Open/Closed" Message.
Hi all,

I would like to display a message in flash "we are open" or "we are closed" based upon time. Naturally I can do this for the users local time on their system, but is it possible to work out if their time is different to UK time (GMT) and display those messages accordingly. Afterall I don't want a user to see a message "we are open" at 1pm their time - they could be in Japan and it'd be about 4am UK time.

Is this possible to work out the time difference on any system?

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International "We Are Open/Closed" Message.
Hi all,

I would like to display a message in flash "we are open" or "we are closed" based upon time. Naturally I can do this for the users local time on their system, but is it possible to work out if their time is different to UK time (GMT) and display those messages accordingly. Afterall I don't want a user to see a message "we are open" at 1pm their time - they could be in Japan and it'd be about 4am UK time.

Is this possible to work out the time difference on any system?

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Fscommand ("Allowscale", "false"); International Man Of Mystery
fscommand ("Allowscale", "false");

If one would like their .swf to be 100%of the browser.(single color background)

Then they loaded another movie on lets say Level 2.

Will this command keep the loaded .swf from being scaled like the movie (background) thats loading it ?

this is an example of the desired effect....however this example calles a new browser window as opposed to the "load movie" action im going for here in this post.

http://www.smashingideas.com

Thanx.....JBOMB
[Edited by D3-JBOMB on 12-27-2001 at 06:20 PM]

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Characters
Is there a way to make it so my character's parts are attached? Each limb is on a seperate layer from the body, and I don't want to move each limb every time the body changes position, is there a way to "hinge" them without hampering their ability to move. Like the arms have to move, the legs have to move, etc... but when he walks, I've had to move the leg, move the body, move the arm, move the other leg and the other arm. If anyone is unclear, ask me and I'l try and put the little bugger on the site. Note: It's not a stick figure. I am new to flash... or at least, big projects like this.

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Characters?
Hi, I'm getting a warning because there's no type declaration in the following line

Code:
var startChar = k.substring(0,1);
What should I declare this as?? A String? I couldn't find a character type....
The next line is

Code:
if(startChar == 'o'){
Do SOmething....
}
Any ideas?

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Xml Characters..
I speak norwegian, and use weird characters like Ø. Æ and Å.. When I write these in an textfeild inside flash, everything works fine, but when I try putting them in an xml file, loading the xml with css into flash the characters does not show up!! Why and how can I change it?? Thanks

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CHARACTERS
do you want to help me with my beat em up gam i would appreiciate if you wolud i need help on the animations i can do everything else i just need you to make me these animations
a few kicks punches, 2 different specials ,block and walk and if your up 2 it an enemy who can walk, block and atacck for a flash beat em up game i can do all the scripting and making the character move etc if you would like to be partners that would be even beter thanx

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Certain Characters Don't Appear
I'm using Flash CS3, but coding with Action Script 2.0. I've created a text box with the property set to Dynamic text. I embedded the font, because its not a common one. When I view it it shows the text box but some of the characters don't show up (i.e.: "we need 250" reads "we need 20"). I went back and checked the embed feature, I told it to AutoFill and I can see the 5 in the box telling me that it will embed that character but for some reason it doesn't come up.

If I change the property to Static Text it shows up fine.

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Get Characters
I need to be able to measure how many characters the user enters...It's an input text field--user puts in so many characters--and then I call a function to count the characters he put in. Thanks.

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How Many Characters ...
Hi evrybody.

Here is my little problem:

Is there a way for Flash to tell me that:

With a textfield that have a width of 100 pixels and with a font size of 13, you can display ' X ' Characters ?

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Special Characters
I was wondering if anyone has encountered any creative ways for getting around using special characters in dynamic text fields. Specifically, getting text characters into Flash isn't a problem, but (using a third party extra) saving that info to a text file creates significant problems because the literal character is saved (or not depending on which character it is) to the text file and then won't appear on a reload. Aside from creating our own save utility (which we're working on), have you ever run across this scenario or heard of workarounds for this?

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1024 Characters
Hi,
I am trying to define a field (like pacman) by using a external .txt file: (loadVariables("field.txt",0)
My problem is that the txt file can't handle more than 1024 characters.
Can I load this field in a different way to the swf file? Or does anybody know a solution for this?

thanks!!!!

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Special Characters
does flash support special characters?

thanks!

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ASCII Characters?
How can i put ascii characters and latin/french letters etc in to my text fields?

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Special Characters
Hi,
This is make me crazy,
I have a text field set as html which as to receive content from a script.
If that contents contains special character it just does not display them how to do ?
the <> for example gives me that problem!
thanks

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Unwanted Characters
This is my first time dealing with countdowns. I have my code working and everything is fine until I preview my movie. I just want the movie to look like this:

00 minutes 00 seconds

I have more than just minutes and seconds but you get the idea. The only problem is that when I view the movie it puts a hyphen in front of the time remaining:

- 00 minutes 00 seconds

Here is my conde:


Code:
now = new Date();
war3 = new Date (2002, 07, 015, 23, 59, 59);
days = (war3-now)/1000/60/60/24;
daysRound = Math.floor(days);
hours = (war3-now)/1000/60/60-(24*daysRound);
hoursRound = Math.floor(hours);
minutes = (war3-now)/1000/60-(24*60*daysRound)-(60*hoursRound);
minutesRound = Math.floor(minutes);
seconds = (war3-now)/1000-(24*60*60*daysRound)-(60*60*hoursRound)-(60*minutesRound);
secondsRound = Math.round(seconds);
if (secondsRound == 1) {
sec = " second ";
} else {
sec = " seconds ";
}
if (minutesRound == 1) {
min = " minute ";
} else {
min = " minutes ";
}
if (hoursRound == 1) {
hr = " hour ";
} else {
hr = " hours ";
}
if (daysRound == 1) {
dy = " day ";
} else {
dy = " days ";
}
timeRemaining = daysRound+dy+hoursRound+hr+minutesRound+min+secondsRound+sec;

tellTarget ( target ) {
}


I don't know if the problem is in this code or not, but it is the only thing I can think of. Thanks for your help.

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Cyrilic Characters
I can not see cyrilic characters in my flash movie

Where can I set ENCODING type?

I tried setting encoding in the html containing flash but it did not help

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Characters Specials
Hi all!

I have a problem, my natural language is spanish, sorry for my bad english, I will try to explain myself =]


I can load some varibles from a txt file, database or xml but in spanish exist some characters specials, for example:

í, ó, ñ ...


Well, when I load the word "constitución", for example, flash display "contituci-n".


I hope that this has solution, if somebody has it, I will be been thankful!!

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Choosing Different Characters...
I have made a sort of click and play game. You know, the sort where you click on a button and you go to a new scene, not to hard. But, the thing is, at the beginning I want the user to be able to choose different characters. This should be quite simple, but I can't think how to do it. The player will be the same picture in every scene, so what I need to do is make it so that when you choose a character the original is replaced with the new character. Can someone help me do this? Thanks a lot, please go into detail, I'm stupid.

EVERY LITTLE HELPS

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